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Unit 23 operates as a critical practice
to establish and evolve the agendas,
methods, attitudes and directions
its graduates will take beyond
the institution. We approach the subject
and discipline of architectural
production as a broad and curious
field that oscillates between meaning
and means, representation and realisation,
experience and expertise. We
investigate and experiment within the
operations, protocols, roles, deceptions
and tales of making experimental
architecture. Students are expected
to take possession of their work
as critical research in developing
their knowledge, skill and ideas.

"20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception."